Throughout Pollex’s journey, Truex’s Joe Gibbs Racing team and its sponsors have been quite supportive. When she was first diagnosed, his team owner at the time Barney Visser offered for Truex to take off for the remaining four months of the 2014 season.
Now, as Pollex battles cancer again, Johnny Morris and his well-known Bass Pro Shops chain are supporting the cause. Ahead of the annual Catwalk for a Cause fundraiser event, where Nascar drivers and their partners will strut down a runway with kids battling cancer, Morris announced that Truex’s car will be painted in teal for ovarian cancer awareness. This year, Auto-Owners Insurance did the same.
“To see the foundation logo on there and the sherrystrong.org logo on there, knowing we have partners at Joe Gibbs Racing with Bass Pro Shops and Auto-Owners Insurance that want to help us raise awareness about pediatric and ovarian cancer is just amazing,” she said. “It’s hard to find large companies and people that want to give back like that. To know I can use this platform that I’ve been given within Nascar to create advocacy for these two very underfunded diseases has been such a humbling experience for me.
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“I never thought I’d be able to use the sport to raise awareness for something so meaningful to me. To see how Nascar’s rallied around me and this cause with all of the drivers who attend Catwalk and all of the people who come out to support us, including our sponsors, has been amazing.”
As the year comes to a close, Pollex is nominated for the Comcast Community Champion of the Year. If she wins, not only will she cry, but she knows exactly what she will do with the $60,000 raised from the honor.
Pollex said, “There are so many things I want to do, hospitals I want to build and integrative clinics I want to open to help women and children battling this illness. There are so many things I want to do locally here in Charlotte and nationally, as well. We’re building a new hospital in Florida, a SherryStrong integrative clinic. We have things going on all over the United States.”
The winner of the Comcast Community Champion of the Year award will be announced during Champion’s Week in Nashville.
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